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Oh, piss right off.

11/3/2024

The fag of the day is Paul McCartney!

This just goes back to where they came from. Liverpool is a tough town. I wouldn't particularly want to run into Paul McCartney in a dark alley, if he didn't like me.

Michael Lindsay Hogg

This always feels significant when I read or hear it. Thoughts are stirred, but can’t be captured.

Anyway.

It was at Stoky Wood* (badge - black and yellow, with a picture of a Spitfire flying over the River Mersey) that Paul and I saw our first film. We were seated on long wooden benches watching Crime Buster Dick Barton**, a great radio hero of ours, when it became too much for Paul. In the flickering half light I watched with great amusement as Big Brother stumbled over me and his pals to exit screen left, scared out of his tiny mind. He wasn't scared when it came to smaller things such as bullies, however, and many's the time he came to my rescue in the school play yard. 'Big Brother have a use after all,' I thought.

*Stockton Wood Primary School, Speke, Liverpool **Dick Barton: Special Agent, was released in May 1948 Btw, Paul's 'I have another memory, of hiding from someone, then hitting them over the head with an iron bar' is the story about Stoky Wood too (Paul was at Stockton Wood Primary School from September 1947 until July 1951)

My memories of brother and I are of two independent little chaps, but Uncle and Auntie,s remembrances are of 'two right little swine', always up to mischief, or with their backs to the wall saying, 'We won't… WE WON'T!' I'm sure they're just a might confused. I do remember a few instances, however, which might give their memories some validity. Like the memory of Paul and me in 72 Western speeding up the growth of next door's apples by throwing stones at the apple tree, and then vigorously denying it. The stones on the other side let us down! Memories of being boss of my own gang in the later Stockton Wood years and charging against the 'enemy' across the school yard in full war cry (obviously why the headmistress Miss Margaret A. Thomas, who used to make the school toys herself, advised the world that one day I would be a 'Leader of men').*** And the came an older bully unto the yard who hit little girls and maketh them cry, and it behove me to teach unto him a lesson: Seeing that I was far too young and weedy to challenge him personally, I chose a friend to talk for me…(no, not Paul)…a housebrick! Being, as I've said, a holy lad it wasn't too difficult to levitate the brick up into the air…over the Bully's thick head…and cut (snip!) the invisible strings. After this bloody, awful incident, he didn't bully little girls, or anyone else for that matter, ever more.

(Mike McCartney, 1981, Thank U Very Much. Mike McCartney's Family Album)

***'I remember the headmistress saying how good the two boys were with younger children,' says Jim, 'always sticking up for them. She said Michael was going to be a leader of men. I think this was because he was always arguing. Paul did things much quieter. He had much more nous. Mike stuck his neck out. Paul always avoided trouble.'

(The Beatles: The Authorised Biography by Hunter Davies, 2010, Updated Edition)

Also:

They were four tough kids from Liverpool who’d learned their craft playing in hotel-cum-brothels in Hamburg. I mean, they were tough. They grew up in Liverpool, which was a tough city. It’s like growing up in Detroit or somewhere. Somewhere, that toughness always comes out. <…> This just goes back to where they came from. Liverpool is a tough town. I wouldn't particularly want to run into Paul McCartney in a dark alley, if he didn't like me.

(Michael Lindsay-Hogg, May 2024, interview with Rob Sheffield for Rolling Stones)

Are you fucking kidding me? 💔

NO YOU GUYS DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT I JUST FOUND ON YOUTUBE. WHAT. I'M SHAKING AND CRYING.

This is an amazing work of art. I hope Macca sees it too someday. Breaks my heart.

In another world

In another world

We could Stand on top of the mountain

With our flag unfurled

In a time to come

In a time to come

We will be dancing to the beat played

On a different drum

“When we sang together,” Lennon told Mintz in one of their conversations, “Paul and I would share the same microphone. I’d be close enough to kiss him. Back then, I didn’t wear me specs onstage – Brian Epstein said they made me look old. So we’d be playing these concerts, in front of thousands of people, but the only thing I could see was Paul’s face. He was always there next to me – I could always feel his presence. It’s what I remember most about those concerts.”

(x)

This hits ALL the spots.

Harmony songs are THE Beatles songs for me.

I never say no to a bit of rip-roar McCartney either.

Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End/Her Majesty (Isolated Vocals) - The Beatles

This was THE moment of Get Back for me.

Same jumper? Were they sharing or did they have one each? In my mind this is George’s and Paul has borrowed it. ❤️

This or McBeardy? I can’t believe we got both. I have to go and lie down and think about it some more.

Paul McCartney All You Need Is Love outfit

PAUL, backstage after a Wings concert, 1976, ©️ Harry Benson

“My best work from this period is backstage where he’s bursting through the door after a show, lying down exhausted, sweating. Linda told me that he’d never let anyone photograph him like that. You only get that access if they like you and don’t mind you or your camera being there.” — Harry Benson

It’s too much to bear.

Ouch

#MCLENNON: it’s like an angel sighing.

i literally spent 3 hours on this and no one in my real life matches my beatles freak so tumblr pls give me some hype 🙏

🙌

now they're frightened of leaving it

everyone's weaving it

once again i’m back on my bullshit with paul’s very obvious type

Why?

John and Paul being protective of each other - REUPLOAD

I had to add a few things.

Sources: ULM vol. 1

Paul McCartney & John Lennon 1968 Full Interview

ULM vol 5: Never Apart pt1/2

ULM vol 5: Never Apart pt 2/2

Paul McCartney suffering from a bad stomach virus during Beatles Interview

I'm sorry but I really don't remember where I got the discussion about an old Winch :( It was somewhere on tumblr.

Thx @genderlessginger for reminding me of Paul defending John in this 1966 interview! <3

Shush.

“I told John on the phone the other day that at the beginning of last year I was annoyed with him. I was jealous because of Yoko, and afraid about the break-up of a great musical partnership. It’s taken me a year to realise that they were in love. Just like Linda and me."

— Paul, Evening Standard (April 21st, 1970) X

Really Love You

Ringo love must feel so good.

early beatles writing sessions

paul: okay, we have to come up with some ideas for the next album. so i was thinking—

john: i have an idea for a song about how im a piece of shit fat ugly bitch with no friends and is hated by everyone and should die. i’m going to call it Dumbfuck Asshole About To Kill Himself.

paul: ……right! cool! i was thinking more along the lines of “i love you girl and want to dance with you” but that’s really good too!

Top tier Paul McCartney photo.

Abbey Road studios, 1974, photographed by Linda McCartney

Make it stop. Ouch.

“Even the little peripheral things become interesting. And I love hearing that, because it’s my story. All these little things, like you say, things that you thought had gone away. There’s one thing, I don’t know whether they used it somewhere, but I was on a very early Beatles session when we were downstairs and the producer was upstairs. I’d forgotten to bring my pick to the session. We used to call it a “plec,” like a plectrum — just a little thing between me and John. And I said, “Oh God, I forgot my plec.” He said, “Where’d you leave it?” I said, “Back in the hotel. It’s in my suitcase or something.” And he’d go, “Oh, soft head.””

— Paul McCartney, Rolling Stone (2021)

This hurts my heart.

Genuinely a bit scary.

Stand by your man

"We were among the first men to come out openly"

Full video link: X

The times they are a-changin.

Is this is obscene?

#fish and finger pie #you know it when you see it

😍😍😍

“Not telling the truth.” Was that a message, was he telling John he wasn’t telling the truth in India, and neither were you.

this part of let it be makes me want to sell my soul to the devil to have been with them in India. What the fuck sort of meta conversation is going on between J&P

P: “It’s incredible yknow just to sort of see us. What we’re doing, it’s incredible…”

?: “What were you doing?”

J: “yes, what were we doing?”

P (stuttering, pulling his hair): “well, y— err, I don’t really know, you know, but it’s like, we totally sort of put our own personalities on there […]”

Ringo laughing, cut to John grinning

I said God Damn

the revolution wasn't bad we hit the streets with all we had